Thanks for checking in, pynner. Very interesting about your heartburn. I had it myself, not last night, but Tuesday night... and I never get that.
So I'm writing that down to see if it pans out next time there's an offshore EQ up there.

Hi Pynner, great to hear from you...Been a worrying several hours over here on the "night shift" in "old Europe" since that quake hit early this
morning my time. Huge relief to know that you are all fine there (except for the snow).

You know, this sequence of quakes is very reminiscent of what happened in the latter half of August this year... Are the local media saying anything
much?

Hello All, I have been busy catching up on my Haunting Hotel thread tonite,I had pictures to post this time! just getting to come on this one. I am
currently having a weird back of the head headache, it is more like at the top of the back of my head, and has begun to pulse. Visual disturbance is
bad tonight too, and loud ear ringing, also pain in my right buttock and thigh.

One near Mt. Lassen, a volcano, downgraded from a 5.0. This is 83 miles from me, so I believe it explains why the puppy wouldn't come to his bed
last night, but instead slept under the dining room table, which is where the 4 yr. old is sleeping now.

I could say this is the 4.5-5.0 in Northern California I've been waiting for, but since it's a volcano, I feel like it's a precursor to something
else, just as all the activity in the California hot spring/geyser areas seemed like a precursor for something larger. I believe the little EQ swarm
around Lake Davis and Honey Lake, pointed out a few days ago, presaged this nearby event, and/or is somehow connected.

Magnitude 4.5 - NORTHERN CALIFORNIA
2008 December 26 12:19:40 UTC

On May 22, 1915, an explosive eruption at Lassen Peak, the southernmost active volcano in the Cascade Range, devastated nearby areas and rained
volcanic ash as far away as 200 miles to the east.

I'm getting the same pains I had before the Ludlow EQ. Not quite as sharp, but close, so my educated guess for a magnitude would be +4.0 by Monday
probably. This area includes Yucca Valley, Baker, Baghdad, Landers and Joshua Tree. Last time was the first time I've gotten this particular
precursor. So we'll see.

Also, I thought I was getting some PNW offshore precursors earlier. Nothing intense.

I think I know what a precursor for PA might be, because I started on my way to work, 10:30pm and I had to pull over for a minute, I had sudden and
violent vomiting with blurred vision. I got here and checked the map, I didn't see anything happening at that time, for about 2 hours I felt
nauseated, and it stopped around 1230-100am. I have no syptoms at this moment of being sick at all, other than a nagging headache, in the back and
front, but the nausea is completely gone, and my vision has cleared up. So it is 200am now, and I checked again and see the PA hit.

edit to add info: quote from UCGS about conditions after an 1800's earthquake in the PA area

earthquakes at Philadelphia were accompanied by a great and unusual swell on the Delaware River.

435am, I haven't checked yet, I expect a lot of activity though, I now have a raging headache, blurred vision, lower leg pain, both legs, knee
pain-right knee, and am again naueated. Over the last hour it has come on and worsened. I am gonna lay my head on this desk for a while.

yep, those Utah quakes got "cancelled". However, as soon as I saw the 4.5 I got screen shots of its data page and local map page (because of the
known history of Utah quakes disappearing), and also got a map shot of the 2.9 in Salt Lake City. I missed the other one as I was off doing some other
stuff for a few minutes.

Just give me a few minutes and I'll upload them to a host and post them...

What is it about that area? They get an awful lot of quakes "cancelled". Pretty unusual to cancel one as big as a 4.5, though.

Here's what I manged to get related to today's "deleted" quakes in Utah. These are all screen shots and have not been altered in any way.
First, the data page for the mag 4.5 quake:

Here is the local region map showing this quake:

The mag 2.9 and the other mag 3.0 (?). The mag 4.5 is SW from here and just missed being shown on this map as well. Sorry about that. When I took the
screen shot I didn't realize there'd been three quakes (or non-quakes) and it was only later (too much later!) that I saw that the other
square was for a quake I hadn't even noted at the time.

When I checked back around an hour or so later, these quakes were gone. Here is a screenshot of the region timestamped (by USGS) 43 minutes after the
one that shows both quakes indicated above:

I also took a screenshot of the USGS Nth America map page (which I try to do every day anyway.) This one, timestamped 09:32 by USGS clearly shows two
quakes in Utah (in red):

Please note that officially, none of these three quakes actually happened. Now, while there are sometimes perfectly good and legitimate reasons
for deleting quakes, deleting three at different locations in one US state in such a short period of time is frankly rather unusual.

What is around there that we're not supposed to know about? Or am I being overly suspicious?

Mike

Edit to add: Reading back through Pynner's posted data from USGS, it appears there were five separate quakes in Utah around the Salt Lake City
region (and not three as I said above) -- all of them then deleted/cancelled by USGS. I missed a couple as I was busy with saving screen shots then
doing other stuff. Pynner, thanks for being on the ball and posting them!

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